For decades, Russia’s BMP has been one of the world's most recognizable infantry fighting vehicles, designed to carry ...

For decades, the BMP was one of the most recognizable infantry fighting vehicles in the Russian and Soviet arsenal. Designed ...

The Soviet BMP-1 was one of the first modern infantry fighting vehicles. It both reflected, and helped to drive, profound changes in Soviet ground-combat doctrine when it entered service in 1966.

The Ukrainian armed forces inherited more than 2,500 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles from the Soviet army as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The 13-ton, 11-person BMP-1 still is Ukraine’s ...

Short-range engagements between armored vehicles tend to be highly lethal. At proverbial knife-fighting range, armor piercing shells strike with maximum kinetic energy, and enemies are more likely ...